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by wembleylion
Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:31 am
Forum: Justice Scrutton's Tipple
Topic: Tomorrow will be a strange day for me !!
Replies: 21
Views: 6834

Re: Tomorrow will be a strange day for me !!

!!YIPPEE!! May you have a long and happy retirement, you certainly deserve it **xXx** .

John
by wembleylion
Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:31 pm
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: Charlie and Mabel in the Park
Replies: 29
Views: 14962

Re: Charlie and Mabel in the Park

However , the theme, featuring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand in the park, harks back to the first scene from a silent film they made under Mack Sennett in 1914, called Mabel's Married Life . Mr PM suggests that the theme comes from Mable's Married Life but I think the more likely candidate is G...
by wembleylion
Fri Nov 07, 2014 9:09 pm
Forum: Justice Scrutton's Tipple
Topic: Happy Halloween
Replies: 15
Views: 6753

Re: Happy Halloween

Scary or not, did they start off green or was that the great cooks that schools had? Alperton secondary school, Wembley, was built before Queen Victoria ascended the throne and there were no cooking facilities so the meals were delivered from a central kitchen at 8.45 each morning in a 10 ton ex-Ar...
by wembleylion
Fri Oct 31, 2014 7:20 pm
Forum: Justice Scrutton's Tipple
Topic: Happy Halloween
Replies: 15
Views: 6753

Re: Happy Halloween

What’s so new about green sausages? They used to serve them up at school when I was a kid in the 1950’s; very clever, you just stabbed them with a fork and a green puss oozed out. !PUKE!

John
by wembleylion
Sun Sep 21, 2014 9:35 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Question for the experts, on automatic payout allwin
Replies: 21
Views: 11990

Re: Question for the experts, on automatic payout allwin

Certainly is Mr PM; I really enjoy these type of mechanical puzzles and I 'Take my hat off' at those who designed them in the first place.

John
by wembleylion
Sun Sep 21, 2014 9:18 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Question for the experts, on automatic payout allwin
Replies: 21
Views: 11990

Re: Question for the experts, on automatic payout allwin

Oh dear; or words to that effect! I wish I had seen the description in Arena and Treefrog's link; it would have saved me an hour's typing. :cry:

The Melvyn Wright link is brilliant. B.M.Co. AUTOMATIC PAYOUT ALLWINS

John
by wembleylion
Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:40 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Question for the experts, on automatic payout allwin
Replies: 21
Views: 11990

Re: Question for the experts, on automatic payout allwin

Hi Scottie, Clearly the teeth are part of a ratchet system that controls the carousel and moves it around. However the problem is complicated by the fact that in Mr PM’s photo the long horizontal lever, at the top of the door, is missing, as is the ratchet lifting arm that drops down from it to the ...
by wembleylion
Sat Aug 23, 2014 8:22 pm
Forum: Auction Community
Topic: eBay and PayPal Linked Accounts
Replies: 1
Views: 1251

eBay and PayPal Linked Accounts

On Friday I sniped in a bid on an item a few seconds before the end and a box immediately popped up stating that the ‘Seller had refused the bid’ because certain conditions had not been met. Reading further I found that the bid was refused because I had not linked my eBay and PayPal accounts. The sn...
by wembleylion
Tue Aug 19, 2014 10:20 am
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: The most unusual trade stimulator ever?
Replies: 6
Views: 2273

Re: The most unusual trade stimulator ever?

I find it hard to believe that a big company like Shell could produce something as crude as this, even as a prototype, and surely they wouldn't label it 'Shell Quick Starting Gasoline' if it was lighter fuel. No, certainly not made by Shell. It looks to me as if it has been made in a back garden she...
by wembleylion
Fri Aug 15, 2014 7:03 pm
Forum: Feedback
Topic: Adobe Flash plugin has crashed
Replies: 10
Views: 7050

Re: Q about Flash

I have this problem with a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7" tablet and I still have it. The home page flashes up ok but directly I touch the forum tab the forum page flashes up for a split second and then disappears to leave just an empty beige page. It only seems to be the forum page that is effected t...
by wembleylion
Fri Aug 08, 2014 7:38 pm
Forum: Tips and Tricks
Topic: Achieving crackle paint effect à la Bryans
Replies: 36
Views: 19753

Re: Achieving crackle paint effect à la Bryans

I purchased some Rust-oleum Crackle Base to see what, if any, other patterns I could make other than the standard grid style. (I have not used the Crackle Top coat on these test pieces) Following the instructions (to the letter) of brushed straight lines for the first emulsion coat followed by brush...
by wembleylion
Sat Jul 12, 2014 8:19 pm
Forum: Tips and Tricks
Topic: Achieving crackle paint effect à la Bryans
Replies: 36
Views: 19753

Re: Achieving crackle paint effect à la Bryans

I understood from the Rust-oleum website that the base coat is clear so I presume that an underlying colour will show through the cracks. In the video it appears to me that the girl is applying the clear crackle base coat over a beige emulsion undercoat. On the B&Q web page both the Rust-oleum b...
by wembleylion
Fri Jul 11, 2014 9:32 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Mills Extrabell identified
Replies: 18
Views: 8820

Re: any info on this mills machine ?

In Dieter Ladwig's book Slot Machines the machine is listed as a Mills Extrabell Aitkens Front and is dated 1946. It is a re-work of a pre-war machine due to war shortages and cost $77.50.

John
by wembleylion
Fri Jul 11, 2014 8:42 pm
Forum: Tips and Tricks
Topic: Achieving crackle paint effect à la Bryans
Replies: 36
Views: 19753

Re: Achieving crackle paint effect à la Bryans

Searching around for Rust-oleum paints I found this Rusto-leum video of their crackle base and finish coat products in use. (I like the idea of a cup of tea before making a start). It suggests any vinyl matt emulsion paint can be used with their crackle products. It is brush applied but the crackles...
by wembleylion
Fri Jul 11, 2014 8:58 am
Forum: Tips and Tricks
Topic: Achieving crackle paint effect à la Bryans
Replies: 36
Views: 19753

Re: Achieving crackle paint effect à la Bryans

Hi Polaris, I certainly think that the Bryan’s crackle finish would have been applied with a spray gun as I can’t imagine that there would have been very much time on spent hand finishing any of the components. I don't know if you can spray PVC type adhesives; perhaps they did use a roller. I also s...
by wembleylion
Thu Jul 10, 2014 10:26 am
Forum: Tips and Tricks
Topic: Achieving crackle paint effect à la Bryans
Replies: 36
Views: 19753

Re: Achieving crackle paint effect à la Bryans

I have been researching crackle finish coatings as my next ‘Build it’ project, after I have completed the Worlborl, I hope will be a Bryan’s Retreeva with a crackle finish case. I found this video on YouTube which could, I think, give a very good Bryan’s style finish using a PVA type adhesive (Elmer...
by wembleylion
Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:52 pm
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: The 1908 Mills Novelty Verbal Fortune Teller Reproduction
Replies: 1
Views: 2110

The 1908 Mills Novelty Verbal Fortune Teller Reproduction

I found the following on Doug North’s The Automata Blog web pages The 1908 Mills Novelty Verbal Fortune Teller: Reproduction on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6njZesnQRA Larry Bieza wrote to give an update on an automaton fortune teller project his team has been working on. Their recreati...
by wembleylion
Tue Jul 01, 2014 8:07 pm
Forum: Build a Slot Machine
Topic: Bryans Worlborl
Replies: 32
Views: 26603

Re: Bryans Worlborl

At long last I've managed to get my piece of Oak cut on Saturday and I have now completed a Standard Bryan’s case. It still needs a bit more surface preparation before it can be varnished, which I will do after a trial fitting of the door, stops, locks, coin shoot and coin tray. Bryans Case 1.PNG John
by wembleylion
Wed Jun 25, 2014 8:56 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Mayfield Electronic Dice & Streets Spot Luck identified
Replies: 47
Views: 29713

Re: Who remembers this amazing dice gambling machine?

Regarding Rippys dice with holes in the spots; I wonder if these could have been read by pneumatic equipment. If a table akin to a small air hockey game was used air could be drawn through the holes at a constant rate with a vacuum pump to create a vacuum below the table surface. If such a table had...
by wembleylion
Mon Jun 23, 2014 7:57 pm
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: Machines in Minehead
Replies: 8
Views: 3948

Re: Look what found in Minehead, Somerset

Please can you give some details about the machine with the cannon in? I have never seen one of these before.
Thanks. John